In this project, we are interested in capturing a video of a possibly dynamic scene using a set of repeating basis illuminations and then relighting the captured video with a novel and possibly varying illumination. To achieve high quality relighting of dynamic scenes, we need to ensure that the number of basis illuminations used are small. In short, we wish to determine the optimal lighting basis (OLB) to illuminate a given scene. Although the OLB depends on the scene, we show that it can be computed via a simple calibration procedure that is done before the video of interest is captured.

We demonstrate through experiments on real and synthetic data that the OLB significantly reduces the number of basis illuminations that are needed to achieve a desired level of accuracy in the relit video. Since the number of basis illuminations is small, only a few neighboring video frames need to be aligned to relight each frame. We present several relighting results for scenes with moving objects, including faces. In each case, although a single video clip was captured, we are able to relight the scene with novel and even varying lighting conditions.